{ "id": "CQSgQ6KFmEtKsIhU", "meta": { "templateCredsSetupCompleted": true }, "name": "Post daily motivational quotes to Telegram using Gemini", "tags": [], "nodes": [ { "id": "fb1fcd67-26ba-4f43-a5d0-426dad0c33a9", "name": "Schedule Trigger", "type": "n8n-nodes-base.scheduleTrigger", "position": [ -32, 0 ], "parameters": { "rule": { "interval": [ { "triggerAtHour": 6 } ] } }, "typeVersion": 1.3 }, { "id": "481e031b-f18e-42d0-a26a-9cb7fcf9c269", "name": "Google Gemini Chat Model", "type": "@n8n/n8n-nodes-langchain.lmChatGoogleGemini", "position": [ 192, 224 ], "parameters": { "options": {} }, "credentials": { "googlePalmApi": { "name": "" } }, "typeVersion": 1 }, { "id": "8589412d-7e8e-4664-aab6-2235fc4135d1", "name": "Generate Daily Quote", "type": "@n8n/n8n-nodes-langchain.agent", "position": [ 192, 0 ], "parameters": { "text": "Generate one short, original motivational quote (under 25 words) and a fitting author name (can be a real famous person or a fitting fictional/anonymous attribution like \"Unknown\"). \n\nRespond ONLY in this exact format, nothing else:\nQUOTE: \nAUTHOR: ", "options": {}, "promptType": "define" }, "typeVersion": 3.1 }, { "id": "b44e23cf-c0b8-4166-a7d4-c756c99b1694", "name": "Parse Quote and Author", "type": "n8n-nodes-base.code", "position": [ 560, 0 ], "parameters": { "jsCode": "const text = $input.first().json.output;\nconst quoteMatch = text.match(/QUOTE:\\s*(.+)/);\nconst authorMatch = text.match(/AUTHOR:\\s*(.+)/);\n\nreturn [{\n json: {\n quote: quoteMatch ? quoteMatch[1].trim() : \"Stay focused and keep moving forward.\",\n author: authorMatch ? authorMatch[1].trim() : \"Unknown\"\n }\n}];" }, "typeVersion": 2 }, { "id": "aaa3e80e-dc6a-49e1-a444-4449ae6f63dc", "name": "Render Quote as Image", "type": "n8n-nodes-base.httpRequest", "position": [ 864, 0 ], "parameters": { "url": "https://api.htmlcsstoimg.com/api/v1/generateImage", "method": "POST", "options": {}, "jsonBody": "={\n \"html_content\": \"

\\\"{{ $json.quote }}\\\"
\u2014 {{ $json.author }}

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